Legendary folk artist Leonard Cohen's first album dropped on this day in 1967, and it remains an essential part of the North ...

The art of the singer-songwriter will never die, and these three songs from 1968 will continue to inspire artists for decades to come.

For the past 25 years I've had this notion that on every successive Leonard Cohen record his voice would get deeper and deeper until one day he'd put out an album so subsonic that you'd just feel it, ...

Leonard Cohen wrote and recorded until near his final breaths — the work, it was understood, was keeping him alive. Arriving three years after his death, Thanks for the Dance is a surprise, a sort of ...

The late Leonard Cohen could certainly be a formidable performer, but he endures primarily because of his songs - richly poetic, nuanced and evocative pieces of aural literature composed with enough ...

This story originally appeared in SPIN’s March 2002 issue. In honor of Cohen’s posthumous album Thanks for the Dance, we’ve republished it below. Then he simply walked away. He left behind his ...

Leonard Cohen has rarely been seen in public since he wrapped up his “Grand Tour” at the Vector Arena in Auckland, New Zealand, on December 21st, 2013, with a joyous encore of the Drifters’ “Save the ...

Leonard Cohen was deep in his career when he finally finished “Hallelujah.” Well, the first version of “Hallelujah” — there would be many, many versions when all was said and done. He’d toiled on the ...

Poet, novelist and musical cult figure Leonard Cohen passed away on Thursday at age 82. Not a great singer, Cohen was a reluctant performer and an unlikely musical star. But the eloquence and ...